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European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (7 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: I am being short-changed here. Austerity is killing the domestic economies across Europe while, at the same time, big business is on an investment strike. We need a solidarity fund and we need it urgently. I propose an emergency tax of 50% on that mass of uninvested profits which were created by the labour of working people by hand and by brain. That would make trillions of euro available...

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 17: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report back on his recent visit to the United States of America; with whom did he meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22693/12]

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: I would like to ask the Taoiseach about foreign policy issues that pertain to the United States. When the Taoiseach met President Obama, did they discuss the ongoing use of Shannon Airport by American war planes on their way to or from war zones? Did they discuss the fact that despite President Obama's alleged revulsion about secret renditions and the holding of people in detention centres...

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: When the Chinese leadership was in Ireland, we rightly demanded to know if the Government had raised the issue of human rights with it. We spoke about the heavy hand of that regime within its own borders in China and the abuse of people and workers there. It is appropriate to ask the same questions with regard to the United States. Like every elected person, I strongly support future...

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: It is imperative that in the appropriate way the Government gives time for statements on the Deputy Wallace issue. Apart from the issue of the utterly wrong actions of Mr. Wallace, as he was at the time, in regard to VAT, and the need for every penny to be repaid from whatever resources available -----

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: ----- there is also an issue of fairness to Members of the Dáil, particularly those who have in the most dishonest, underhand and opportunistic way been targeted by some sectors of the right wing media -----

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: ----- as if there was guilt by association, when they know well that the Dáil only allowed the mechanism of the second division for technical -----

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: May I speak on that issue?

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Ceann Comhairle -----

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Ceann Comhairle -----

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: I want to comply with what the Ceann Comhairle has just said. I acknowledge that he referred Deputy Wallace's request to the Committee on Members' Interests. If that committee deliberates the matter, it will come back to the Dáil afterwards. However, if the committee decides that it does not want to address the matter, it is unthinkable that we do not have time this week - I am asking the...

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: One reason from my perspective -----

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: I know.

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: There is a malicious agenda in sections of the right-wing press -----

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: ----- including some owned by tax exiles -----

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: As elected Members, we have a right to voice our concerns.

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: I opposed the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 when it came before the Dáil and I also oppose the renewal of the various sections today. The Act was introduced after the unspeakable atrocity that was the Omagh bombing. At the time I pointed out the united response of rage and revulsion of ordinary people on the island as a whole and beyond the island, but in particular of...

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: Therefore, this gives the State the power to suppress an organisation-----

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: We will come to this in a moment but before we do so let us take as an example a group of citizens with serious difficulties with how motor taxation is levied who form a group and as part of a civil disobedience protest and a demand for change advocate the withholding of motor tax for a period. This could be criminalised under the Offences Against the State Act and the progression I have...

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Joe Higgins: It is a pity the Minister would not refer to billionaire tax exiles who own most of the media in the country in the same terms, or perhaps the Minister does. Does he?